Idea Development

A session with Leora Skolkin-Smith In 1969, Jane Alpert a good-looking upper-middle-class Jewish girl who was an honors student at Swarthmore College, conspired to bomb eight government and commercial office buildings in New York City. She was arrested when other participants in her group were caught planting dynamite in National Guard trucks. She pleaded guilty […]

A Session with KM Cholewa What if you haven’t travelled the world or don’t have an interest in researching the kitchen implements or dress codes of another era? What if your novel takes place over a single dinner party and there are no flashbacks in time and no flashbacks of travel over land and sea? Under […]